AB - Job - 10

10:1  Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon Him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

10:2  And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore have You thus judged me?

10:3  Is it good before You if I am unrighteous? For You have disowned the work of Your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

10:4  Or do You see as a mortal sees? Or will You look as a man sees?

10:5  Or is Your life human, or Your years the years of a man,

10:6  that You have inquired into my iniquity, and searched out my sins?

10:7  For You know that I have not committed iniquity, but who is he that can deliver out of Your hands?

10:8  Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards You changed Your mind, and struck me.

10:9  Remember that You have made me as clay, and You turn me again into dust.

10:10  Have You not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

10:11  And You clothed me with skin and flesh, and framed me with bones and sinews.

10:12  And You bestowed upon me life and mercy, and Your oversight has preserved my spirit.

10:13  Having these things in Yourself, I know that You can do all things; for nothing is impossible for You.

10:14  And if I should sin, You watch me, and You have not cleared me from iniquity.

10:15  Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.

10:16  For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again You have changed and are terribly destroying me;

10:17  renewing against me my torture: and You have dealt with me in great anger, and You have brought trials upon me.

10:18  Why then did You bring me out of the womb? And why did I not die, and no eye see me,

10:19  and I become as if I had not been? For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

10:20  Is not the time of my life short? Allow me to rest a little,

10:21  before I go to where I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

10:22  to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can anyone see the life of mortals.